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Can’t wait for Jonathan Ferguson, the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history to analyze the game and its depiction of weaponry and the handling of said weaponry.

It’s almost like all the goodwill that Bethesda, CDPR and others have lost over the recent years has been soaked up by Warhorse. Those guys just keep doing everything right. Queue up that Leo DiCaprio meme ‘Gentlemen, you had my curiosity with the 60fps; now you have my money with the physical disc.’

Classic Castlevania fan here, very happy to see a new 2D installment, and the actual gameplay looked solid. That art style is trash though. Cheap, low quality aesthetic, so unappealing. Fingers crossed the next game(s) they reveal will either shoot for realism or old school pixel art, not this generic magic marker style infecting too many of today’s games.

Ok that was pretty freakin good.

Whose idea was it to remove the explanation as to what the update does from the actual update screen on PlayStation and replace it with a QR code? That is the stupidest possible decision they could have made regarding this. Yeah, create an extra, completely unnecessary step when it was perfectly fine before. Probably the same person that removed the ability to sort our trophy lists alphabetically like how it was on PS3, replaced with the awful ‘last game you unlock a trophy in gets forced to the top of the list’ method.

Elated to see this course correction. The obvious thing to do would have been to not require the needlessly tedious battle arena slop or pointlessly restrictive Hard mode requirements for the trophy list in the first place, but at least they’re fixing those mistakes. I’ve done them already, this doesn’t affect me personally speaking, but it’s nice for my fellow trophy hunting bretheren to be able to have a now-competently curated platinum to work toward, one where the devs acknowledge our time is more valuable than their personal opinion(s) on what should be required for certain trophy unlocks. Hopefully they design a better list for part 3 or at least incorporate these ‘trash trophy workarounds’ into that game at launch.

I voted for Cairn. Those Trails games all blend together and I absolutely despise that cheap generic anime aesthetic. I’m not exactly thrilled with Cairn’s art style either, but it’s at least trying to be something different gameplay-wise.

Great game, solid remaster (even if the lack of 60fps on current gen stinks). More relevantly, this one has a fantastic and enjoyable trophy list. Much better than the Crash remaster (although the games themselves are solid remakes too). Devs should consider what the trophy hunting audience wants rather than try to shove arbitrary time trials down everyone’s throats.

@Scottyy I know exactly what you mean with reference to PSN not giving you an option to buy the game because you already ‘bought’ it through PS+. That’s so irritating. There may be a workaround, but I’m not entirely sure, and it would involve jumping through several hoops.

Unfortunately, I have news for you: you won’t “own” the game if you buy the twin pack either. No one ‘owns’ digital games, you’re buying a license to access the game which can be revoked at any time, for any reason, and there’s nothing you can do about it. The only way to actually truly own the game would be to hunt down a physical copy.

Cool, this soulless multiplayer focused game creates a nice void in which I can chip away at the old backlog while I wait for the next real Horizon game.

It will feel so morally good to circumvent garbage trophy design by selectively using these.

I got the PS4 platinum for FF7R legit soon after launch and those horrendously tedious Chadley challenges were pure filth, along with Hard Mode’s stupid nonsensical gameplay restrictions. What a boring chore it was to slog through that crap. Booted up the PS5 version recently for a replay (trash trophy list aside, it’s a good game otherwise) and played through normally until the badly designed parts—I cranked the cheats on to speed though that slop. Felt great. Can’t wait to trample the intentions of whoever was responsible for curating the trophy list for Rebirth as well.

Hard to believe something that only looks…this good didn’t already have a 60fps mode.

Immediately turned off by the low budget Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic, and the ‘online live service-y’ feel is the other nail in the coffin. Hope it does well for Sony so maybe they’ll finally get a cash cow and go back to making the types of games I actually want to play, but in reality this reveal means less than nothing to me.

Looks promising.

Good news!…if the full game is on disc(s). If not, this is literally irrelevant since it would be a digital release masquerading behind the lie of being a physical release anyway.

Is that quote accurate or a quirk of cross language communication?

“We do have PS5 Pro enhancement.” is either grammatically incorrect and no big deal, or it literally means they have one enhancement. I’m not going to nitpick the grammar of someone who may not speak English well, but if there really is only one enhancement that sounds kind of lame. It better be something of consequence, like it’s 60fps on Pro vs 30 on the other consoles or else…blah

Great idea, terrible execution if this really does use a touchscreen. Besides the general crap quality of mobile games, one of the biggest downsides is touch screen controls. The rare instances I play a mobile game I am forever ‘losing’ the button or stick, as in I think I’m pressing it but because the button doesn’t actually physically exist there’s no tactile feel to maintain that brain-thumb connection. Touch screen controls (as a main method of play, not a sparsely used gimmick) are trash.

Allowing us to swap button placements would be nice if it used physical buttons somehow, but also largely redundant. The DualSense is easily one of the best controllers I’ve ever held and quite literally the only thing I’d change is to go for offset sticks. That’s it. Otherwise it’s perfect.

The sister site put up a bar chart, and what’s interesting is PS+ (which is not a platform, but a service on a platform) was listed whereas Gamepass was nowhere to be seen. Unless that’s a mistake (or a poorly cobbled together chart where Gamepass is included as part of a different item but not mentioned) then that’s way worse than Xbox consoles having less a share of devs’ interest. Remember, Microsoft is trying to spin failing hardware an console marketshare into a magical positive, as if they never cared about that anyway and only focus on services and subscriptions now. Well…where’s the devs’ interest in gamepass on this chart then?

There must be more than one Bonkers game, because the only one I remember playing on the Genesis wasn’t a sidescroller. It was a collection of different mini games, some puzzle related others action oriented. I don’t know enough about this collection to know which Bonkers game this is, but it would be nice to revisit for nostalgia’s sake.

This does look pretty awesome. I know John Linneman from Digital Foundry must be excited for it, he did a lengthy retrospective of the older titles in a video. $100 says he mispronounces the word basically as “basely” at least 5 times when he inevitably covers this game.

If it’s worth it in the end, I have no problem waiting. If it isn’t, what did we all wait for? It’s a dangerous line Judas is walking, but Bioshock is one of my all time favorite games so I’m not writing this one off just yet.

Top of the line with story, gameplay and tech; bottom of the barrel when designing a competent, trophy hunter completionist friendly trophy list.

It’s one of the worst, but easily eclipsed by the e-waste, the pure unadulterated slop known as FF13. It is quite literally everything I don’t want from a mainline FF game. The first two thirds are the most boring, linear “level design” (and I use that term loosely) I’ve ever suffered though, teetering on the border of being classified as an actual walking simulator. Mediocre combat system, crap characters I was hoping would get killed off over the course of the story so they’d stop talking, bad voice acting and a forgettable plot round out the rest of the experience. It was pretty for the time, I will give it that, but utterly worthless in every other respect. Compared to 13, Dirge of Cerberus isn’t all that bad.

If this were a game I intended to play, this would be irritating and I’d say something like ‘Then they won’t get my money at first either, not until they allow me to buy and own it’. But since they insist on forcing the online component (of which I have less than no interest in) into GTA’s trophy list I have zero intention to play it anyway. Take it a step further, don’t release it at all on disc, makes no difference to me.

Jury’s still out on the frenetic over the top action part of the gameplay. RE8 was a lousy game, like an awful B grade action movie with stupid unrealistic set pieces. 7 mostly nailed the creepy unsettling dread, that sense of foreboding the series used to be known for. I’m hoping they dial back the stupid nonsensical action in favor of true survival horror. Less RE5/6/8 more RE1/2/3/CV/7

Super happy if this proves true. I’m a big fan of longer console generations and of squeezing as much out of a machine perfomance-wise as we possibly can.

I enjoyed the quirky British humour in the original Fable, but that’s all anyone keeps talking about in reference to the game. There needs to be more to it than that. The systems and mechanics and character development/plot better be good or this will still be a letdown, humour notwithstanding. I’m hopeful, everythinf we’ve seen so far holds promise, but I wish people would focus on the more important stuff instead of what basically amounts to the cherry on top.

Don’t worry, if the full game is not completely on-disc I’ll have no problem waiting till it’s a few dollars on sale years from now. Too much to play to bother with greedy publishers that try to wrest control away from the end user.

If they insist on forcing that horrendously repetitive Chadley wave survival slop into this game too and thereby butcher the trophy list (again), just call it Final Fantasy 7: Rebarbative.

Great Platinum. Sony has a serious recurring problem shoehorning poorly designed, tedious trophies into their DLC’s after the fact which force completionists to slog back through something they had already finished and buried and moved on from, but referring strictly to the base game’s platinum, well, it’s a joy. Very fun to complete.

Let’s just hope whatever incompetent intern they had hand-picking the trophy list for the first two games gets replaced for the third entry. I can only imagine seeing

Win 1,000 games of Queen’s Blood in a row without losing a single round: Bronze

and immediately passing on this in favor of games with other, better designed lists.

$20 says the usual people try to spin this into a nefarious, shady, secret black magic pact Sony somehow orchestrated to steal the game away from other platforms.

Deserved to be the top seller, but with all the… ahem “gamers” playing live service slop, No. 3 isn’t to shabby!

Shame Sony spun off their tv segment. I was hoping for a tiny screen I could watch instead when I sit next to my 77” 4K OLED

Got my eye on this one. Didn’t understand the hate the character reveal initially received; people come in all different shapes, sizes and colors. If she’s written well and likeable, I don’t care what she looks like. I’m more concerned with whether this will recapture the quirky nature of the original Fable, or if it’ll be more like the lackluster sequels that kind of dropped the ball. Hoping it’ll be good!

This says it all as far as the mass public is concerned. There is a negative infinity chance E33 is better than Elden Ring, yet it inexplicably has more awards. It’s the Skyrim 2011 vs. Dark Souls debacle all over again.

“Anime-Inspired spin on slay the spire” say that ten times fast

Methinks I’ll give this another try. I played the demo and wasn’t impressed, but in all honesty I didn’t give it a lot of time. Maybe it’s worth a second chance

Anyone with any business sense should have anticipated this. It’s the timeworn strategy of releasing a smash hit tv show, then waiting until after it’s off-air and consumer interest has fizzled before releasing tie-in material. They can’t lose!

This gets a 60fps patch while Bloodborne languishes in 30fps purgatory 🥲

Almost time to tip the hourglass over and begin the rumor cycle anew

I’m fine with this. It’s shovelware slop that fake ‘trophy hunters’ use to pad out their lists and artificially boost their trophy score. There’s really no redeeming value in the these titles, like reading the nutritional information on a package of pixie sticks.

Square has already formally apologized for the god awful trophy design—is this an attempt to compensate for it?

I slogged though the nightmare of tedious garbage it took to unlock the platinum years ago, and have less than zero intention to ever return, so it means nothing to me now. But this could conceivably be a way to mitigate their terrible curation of the trophy list if it doesn’t conflict with unlocking them. As far as I know, adjusting the actual trophies is a major undertaking but enabling features like this would circumvent Sony’s cumbersome process of amending trophy criteria.

It’s mass market palatable, no surprise. Both are great games in their respective genres, but I personally need way more than driving around in circles to hold my attention. Yotei had a great story, character development and fantastic gameplay; I played it far more than Forza 5.

Some of the greatest games of all time were born out of extremely tight budget constraints and looming deadlines. Other times hundreds of millions of dollars and years of polish are just what the doctor ordered. Either method (and everything in between) can produce fantastic results, if the developer(s) are passionate and skilled. And that’s a big IF

It’s been almost 16 years and still nothing has come out that’s better than Bloodborne.

I hope not. FF13 is far and away the worst mainline entry in the entire series. Bland, unappealing characters and boring, linear gameplay for a huge chunk of the game. It’s astonishing they actually greenlit sequels to be honest, and I’m guessing it was only to recoup what they invested in the engine and try to squeeze some extra money out of it. 13 is the only FF game I haven’t completed a second playthrough of.

No one will own this unless it’s minted to a disc, fully and completely and without any ‘internet connection required’ BS

Decent games, but I have far less nostalgia for either of these janky glitch fests than I had for Oblivion. I’ll pick these both up if they get legitimate physical versions—that means full game on disc no internet connection required BS—but if not, I’ll have no issues letting them rot on PSN. There’s simply too much other, better stuff to play.